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Professor Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD

Professor Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD

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Prof. K. Jaishankar, PhD is a Professor of Criminology at the Raksha Shakti University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He holds Masters and PhD Degrees in Criminology from University of Madras. He has published more than hundred publications, including peer reviewed articles in journals such as British Journal of Criminology, editorials, book chapters and books.

He is the recipient of the prestigious “National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences”. He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK and has completed a research project on Victims of Cyber Crimes. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology (www.cybercrimejournal.com) and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences www.ijcjs.co.nr He is the founder President of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) (www.sascv.org) and founder Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) (www.cybervictims.org) He was a member of the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crime) Core group of Experts (15 member group) on Identity related crime (2007-08). He is a Member of the Membership and Advancement Committee World Society of Victimology (WSV), Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC),International Advisory Board member of the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar Illan University, Israel, Advisory Board Member of the Center for Cybercrime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA and Member of the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada.

He was a Keynote Speaker at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held during 20 – 24, May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands and 15th World Society of Victimology Symposium held during 5 – 9, August 2015, at Perth, Australia. He was a discussant at the Opening Ceremony of the Stockholm Criminology Symposium held during June 11-13, 2012 at Stockholm, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime prevention. He is appointed as an AInternational Ambassador of British Socieyt of Criminology (BSC).

His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime mapping, GIS, Communal Violence, Policing, and Crime prevention. Email: drjaishankar@gmail.com URL: http://www.drjaishankar.co.nr

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Group Processes
  • Internet and Virtual Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Law and Public Policy
  • Person Perception
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Research Methods, Assessment

Research Group or Laboratory:

Books:

  • Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar (June, 2011) Cyber crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights, and Regulations. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. ISBN: 978-1-60960-830-9
  • Jaishankar, K. (2009). (Ed.). International perspectives on crime and justice. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0198-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0198-0.
  • K. Jaishankar (Ed.) (2011). Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal behavior. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN (10): 1439829497 ISBN (13): 9781439829493.
  • K. Jaishankar (2009). Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines. Tirunelveli: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. ISBN 978-81-906687-1-2
  • Madhava Soma Sundaram, P., Jaishankar, K., & Ramdoss, S. (Eds.) (2008). Crime victims and justice: An introduction to restorative principles. New Delhi: Serials Publications. ISBN (13): 978-81-8387-163-1.
  • Ronel, N., Jaishankar, K., & Bensimon, M. (Eds.). (2008). Trends and issues in victimology. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0069-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0069-3.

Journal Articles:

  • Desai M., and Jaishankar, K. (2008). Impact of media violence on Children. Occasional series in Criminal Justice and International Studies, 2008, 90-105, RMIT publishing, Australia.
  • Eric Lambert, K. Jaishankar, Shanhe Jiang, Sudershan Pasupuleti, and Jagadish Bhimarasetty. (2011). Correlates of Formal and Informal Social Control on Crime Prevention: An Exploratory Study among University Students, Andhra Pradesh, India. Asian Journal of Criminology, 6(2), December 2011.
  • Halder, D., & Jaishankar, K. (2009). Cyber socializing and victimization of women. Temida: The Journal on Victimization, Human Rights and Gender, 12(3), 5-26.
  • Jaishankar, K., Pang, B., & Hyde, S. (2008). Special paper: Bangkok international summit declaration on policing cyberspace. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 2(1), 256-270.
  • Lambert, E., Pasupuleti, S., Jiang, S., Jaishankar, K., & Bhimarasetty, J. V. (2008). Death penalty views among college students in India. Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology, 10(2), 207-218. (2006 Ranking:12/27 in Criminology & Penology; 2006 Impact Factor: 1.059)
  • Sudershan Pasupuleti, Eric G. Lambert, Shanhe Jiang, Jagadish V. Bhimarasetty, and K. Jaishankar (2009). Crime, Criminals, Treatment, and Punishment: An Exploratory Study of Views Among College Students in India and the United States. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 25(2), 131-147, May 2009.
  • Umarhathab, S., Deepak Raj Rao, G., & Jaishankar, K. (2009). Cyber crimes in India: A study of emerging patterns of perpetration and victimization in Chennai City. Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 1(1), 51-66.

Other Publications:

  • Jaishankar, K. (2010). Patterns of Communal Violence Victimization in South India: A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis. In S.G. Shoham., P. Knepper., & M. Kett. (Eds.) International Handbook of Victimology (pp. 181- 216). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Courses Taught:

  • Crime Mapping and GIS
  • Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence
  • Cyber Crimes
  • Police Administration and Investigation
  • Private Detective and Investigation
  • Research Methods and Statistics in Criminal Justice
  • Security Management

Professor Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD
International Institute of Justice and Police Sciences, 11/13,
JK Complex, Ananda Reddy Layout,
Electronic City Phase 2
Bengaluru 560100
India

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